Background
Shapiro, Sumner was born on January 13, 1926 in Nashua, New Hampshire, United States. Son of Maurice David and Hannah (Goodman) Shapiro.
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Shapiro, Sumner was born on January 13, 1926 in Nashua, New Hampshire, United States. Son of Maurice David and Hannah (Goodman) Shapiro.
Bachelor of Science, United States Naval Academy, 1949. Master of Science, George Washington University, 1966. Postgraduate, Naval War College, 1966.
Postgraduate, United States Army Institute Advanced Soviet and Eastern European Studies, 1961.
He was a 1949 graduate of the United States Naval Academy and a veteran of the Korean War. He earned a Master"s degree in International Affairs from George Washington University. Throughout the 1950s he served in the Office of Naval Intelligence, reporting to Chief of Naval Operation Arleigh Burke, as well as serving stints in Moscow and London.
He was a graduate of the Naval War College and the United States. Army"s Institute for Advanced Soviet and Eastern European Studies in Germany.
He was appointed Rear Admiral September 1, 1976. He was simultaneously Doctorate/DNI and commander of the Naval Intelligence Command.
From 1978 to 1982, he was 51st Director of Naval Intelligence. Shapiro had a strong influence on United States Cold War naval strategy.
Shortly into his career as an intelligence analyst, convicted Israeli spy had his security clearance reduced by Shapiro after presenting a plan to garner intelligence from South Africa.
According to the Washington Post, Sumner dismissed Pollard as a "kook". "I wish the hell I"d fired him," Shapiro would later opine. Shapiro, who was himself Jewish, stated that he was troubled by the support of Jewish organizations for Pollard: "We work so hard to establish ourselves and to get where we are, and to have somebody screw it up.. and then to have Jewish organizations line up behind this guy and try to make him out a hero of the Jewish people, it bothers the hell out of me".
The Admiral was among four former directors of Naval intelligence (alongside William Studeman, John Butts and Thomas Brooks) who wrote a livid response to Israeli negotiations to free Pollard, which was published in the Washington Post:
The National Intelligence Professionals society offers a scholarship named for RADM Sumner Shapiro.
President Naval Intelligence Foundation. Member Naval Intelligence Foundation (president), Naval Intelligence Professionals (board directors), United States Naval Institute, Association Former Intelligence Officers, National.Mil. Intelligence Association, National Security Industries Association, United States Naval Academy Alumni Association, Naval Submarine League. M C.
Son of; married Eleanor Son of Hymen, June 14, 1949. Children: Martha, Steven, Susan.